Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

Structure of projects on ecology and water protection

The Volga, for most of the country's inhabitants, celebrated in the songs of its peoples, is the main symbol of the meaning of life, the breadwinner and source of life - water. It is home to more than 50 species of commercial fish, and fish farming is developed on the river. Navigation, which makes it possible to transport not only passengers but also industrial and food goods. Cities with a population of more than 1 million people: N. Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Volgograd. If we take into account the cities that are connected along the main rivers - tributaries flowing into the Volga, then this is already hundreds of cities connected to each other by river transport, with ports and a huge network of road and rail transport. The Volga has enormous economic significance; it is not simply a large river of "central Russia" and Europe, but the most important strategic transport and logistics system linking Europe and Asia by natural transport corridors.
The project provides for a set of measures - from clearing water bodies, designating water protection zones, land reclamation, preventing pollution, clogging and depletion of water areas, to reconstructing water structures and preserving the habitat of animal and plant life.

The approved Program combines the development of all sectors, regional hybrid energy based on low- and medium-capacity nuclear power plants and thermal power plants, infrastructure, environmental, educational, technological, social and other projects, with the aim of satisfying the energy, food, humanitarian, cultural, and technological needs of the Great Soviet Sovereign People of the USSR.